Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:33:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Omar M. Nafees" <omnafees@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> To: Randy Rowe <rerowe@rerowe.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail problems Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405201333250.13375@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <1085070347.2874.11.camel@work.rerowe.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405201040220.23098@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> <1085070347.2874.11.camel@work.rerowe.com>
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This worked. Thanks for all your help. Omar Omar M. Nafees ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructional Support Coordinator (CS230, CS234, CS240, SE240, CS251, CS350) School of Computer Science University of Waterloo Office: DC3120 Ph: (519) 888 4567 x2859 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP public key is available at: http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~omnafees/pgp_public_key.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 20 May 2004, Randy Rowe wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 09:43, Omar M. Nafees wrote: > > Hello, > > > > An 'mail loop back' error occurs whenever I send mail to myself. Here is > > the Mail Delivery report: > > > > > > The original message was received at Thu, 20 May 2004 10:40:00 -0400 (EDT) > > from localhost.uwaterloo.ca [127.0.0.1] > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > <root@hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca> > > (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error) > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > 553 5.3.5 hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) > > 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error > > > > [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ] > > > > Reporting-MTA: dns; hacker.cs > > Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost.uwaterloo.ca > > Arrival-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:40:00 -0400 (EDT) > > > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; root@hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca > > Action: failed > > Status: 5.3.5 > > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 5.3.5 system config error > > Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:40:00 -0400 (EDT) > > > > > > [ Part 3: "Included Message" ] > > > > Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:39:59 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Charlie ROOT <root@hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca> > > To: Charlie ROOT <root@hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca> > > Subject: test > > > > test > > > > > > ************************************************************** > > > > Any ideas as to what the 'local configuration error' could be? Where > > should I be looking? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Omar > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > An even better bet is that the local configuration error is in > /etc/hosts. I just ran across this when I moved a machine from one net > to another. Check your ip address settings for your host. >
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